Re: Six PostgreSQL questions from a pokerplayer

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Patvs <patvs(at)chello(dot)nl>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Six PostgreSQL questions from a pokerplayer
Date: 2009-07-06 10:23:10
Message-ID: 20090706102310.GI20436@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Craig Ringer (craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au) wrote:
> What that does mean, though, is that if you don't have significantly
> more RAM than a 32-bit machine can address (say, 6 to 8 GB), you should
> stick with 32-bit binaries.

I'm not sure this is always true since on the amd64/em64t platforms
you'll get more registers and whatnot in 64-bit mode which can offset
the pointer size increases.

Thanks,

Stephen

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